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A Machine Learning Approach to Forecasting SEP Intensity and Times based on CME and other Solar Activities
(2022-07)High intensity Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events pose severe risks for astronauts and critical infrastructure. The ability to accurately forecast the peak intensity and times of these events would enable preparatory ... -
Teaching Children with Autism to Tact Private Events Based on Common Properties
(2022-08-11)Skinner (1957) proposed that people learn to talk about private events in several ways. This study sought to examine the plausibility of one of those mechanisms: common properties. Skinner asserted that children learn tacts ... -
The Effects of Presession Conditions on Behavior During a Brief Functional Analysis
(2022-07)Previous research has demonstrated that patterns of responding during a no-interaction condition of a functional analysis (FA) may predict FA outcomes. Thus, behavior analysts may use an initial no-interaction condition ... -
Numerical Study of the Effects of Injector Geometry on the Performance of Rotating Detonation Engines
(2022-07)A study of the impact of injector geometry on the performance of rotating detonation engines is performed. A numerical scheme is developed to represent the rotating detonation engine physics. In order to simulate the ... -
Preserving Users’ Privacy in IoT Systems Through Network-based Access Control
(2022-07)Privacy issues have plagued the rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Resource-constrained IoT devices often obscure transparency for end-users. A lack of transparency and control complicates user ... -
Was This Part of the Plan? Examining Planning as a Mechanism to Mitigate Workplace Intrusions
(2022-07)Workplace intrusions are commonplace in every organization. Limited preliminary work (e.g., Moon et al., 2020) is beginning to suggest that certain individuals may be more susceptible to workplace interruptions. Yet, it ... -
Quantifying Charge Transport in Chemically Doped Semiconducting Polymers
(2021)This report is for the Link Foundation, which generously provided me a graduate research fellowship. In this report, I outline a segment of the organic electronics and organic thermoelectrics fields, then detail the ... -
Instrumenting the unmanned surface vehicle, Dorado with a novel, miniature gas chromatograph: Toward a rapidly-deployable, operational protocol for studying dispersion in the ocean
(2015-09)There exists a well-developed and maturing framework for understanding and predicting the circulation of water masses at scales of the world ocean down to the scales of ports and harbors. Ocean circulation models employing ... -
Link Foundation Fellowship Report
(2019)Magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) is a leading technique for the detection and localization of obscured magnetic targets via exploiting the field anomalies they create. This is especially true in marine environments when ... -
Turbulence Measurement with Coherent Doppler Sonar
(2010-09)The ocean has been described as Earth's "fi nal frontier" in a vision statement on ocean exploration (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2000). The search for new insight is motivated by the fact that our ... -
Surf Zone Tilt Current Meter
(2019)Coastal tides and free surface gravity waves locally interact with the nearshore bathymetry generating spatially diverse circulation cells. Collectively, the cells form a current velocity flow field where net transport of ... -
Sensor Development to Utilize Underwater Electric Potential (UEP) Fields to Navigate the Underwater areas of Ship Hulls
(2019-09)Underwater electric potential fields occur due to natural reasons, such as changes in atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and movements of water bodies in the ocean, or artificial reasons, such as stray and controlled ... -
Developing /11 Situ Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Dioxide Instrumentation
(2019)The ocean carbon system plays a critical role in regulating carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere. With increased anthropogenic carbon input, it is even more important to understand the system through measurements, ... -
A Measuring System for Simultaneous Current, Wave and Ice Action on Offshore Structures
(2016-09)The design, fabrication and installation of a n Ice Force Measuring System (IFMS) were completed with partial support from the Department of Energy sponsored project entitled Measurement and Analysis of Extreme Wave and ... -
Using Advanced Driving Simulation and Vibrotactile Cues to Train Drivers to Interact with Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicles
(2021-07)There are six levels of vehicle automation, from Level 0 – no automation to Level 5, fully autonomous [1]. According to several projections, the majority of vehicles on the road will be at intermediate levels for the ... -
Investigating the computations underlying complex motor skill learning
(2021-09)In order for a person to learn a new skill from scratch such as riding a bike or playing the piano, their brain must generate a new motor controller (a policy which maps one’s goal and current state to movements) that ... -
Testing the efficacy of UVC LEDs for biofouling control
(2022-05)The use of ultraviolet-C (UVC) light as a biofouling preventative has been successfully demonstrated using mercury-based lamps. However, these lamps have several limitations (such as fragility and use of mercury), and ... -
Cross-Gender and 1-to-N Face Recognition Error Analysis of Gender Misclassified Images
(2022-05)A number of recent research studies have shown that face recognition accuracy is meaningfully worse for females than males. Gender classification algorithms also perform worse: one commercial classifier gives a 7% ... -
Nanomechanical characterization of vascular tissue using Atomic Force Microscopy
(2022-05)Cardiovascular morphogenesis and pathophysiology have been associated with the mechanical properties of the vessel wall. In this work, nanomechanical properties of diseased arteries and control groups were quantified using ... -
Flight Test of an Floatplane Modification to the C-130J Aircraft
(2022-05)This report details the future flight test of a potential amphibious modification to the C130J Super Hercules. The goal of the project is to enable an amphibious capability through the installation of dual floats via a ...